Chapter IV: Bibilian
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After walking for several days, I was completely lost. The desert was huge! I was lucky to find a Wind rune or
two from ChonChons, those small flying insects I mentioned before. So now I had a stronger Thunder Storm, although I didnt
like it much. The Sograt desert was huge, with the strangest creatures I had ever seen. The one that stood out the most was a
creature called a Muka. These monsters were huge Cactus plants with movable limbs that bounced around screaming loudly. They
were also quite dangerous. They tended to attack at will, and exploded into a puddle of water when defeated.
God Poing was still missing, although that didn't matter I guess. She had things to do, after all. We couldn't expect
her to be there for us all the time, could we?
As I was walking through the Sograt desert, I stopped and bent down at a small spring. Cupping my hands, I brought
the water to my lips and drank. It was kind of saliferous, but any water was good, because of how thirsty I was. I decided
to sit down and eat some food that was in my pack. Withdrawing an apple from my satchel, I took a big bite. It was juicy...
but I wasn't a fruit person, I just couldn't find anything else for my tiny bits of zeny. As I continued my very pathetic
meal, I heard some kind of singing coming from behind me...
"Doot Doot doot, doodoodoo doot, dooot! Doodoodoo doot doot dooodoooooo! Boys and girls of eeeverrry age, wouldn't you like
to see something strange?! Come with us and you will seeeeee this a town of Halloweeeen, THIS IS HALLOWEEN THIS IS HALLOWEEN.."
Sang the voice...
"Err...? Huh?"
I turned around and saw a huge beak coming right towards me. It was moving so fast that I barely had time to stand
to my feet. A mega sized foot crashed down on my face, bringing me to my back as I screamed in a muffled tone. A second foot
placed itself on my chest. I heard the rider command the bird to sit, and I flailed as it perched itself on me. I heard two
clunks as the rider hopped off the bird. I looked up and through the toes of the birds talon, I saw a female knight with
short pink hair, wearing a helmet on her head. She wore an iron skirt, long cape, metallic boots, and heavy gloves. She smiled
and bent over, only to poke me in the nose.
"Ahhh! See, Charolette? I told you you'd hatch a baby some day! But today you've hatched us a whole lil' mage!!!" Said the Girl.
"Ehhhh!!! Get this damn thing off me!" I shouted, kicking my legs about.
"Bah! You don't have to be so rude, EGG HEAD!!!" Yelled the knight.
"Grr! Its hurting me!!!" I bellowed.
"Sigh, fine fine. C'mon, off Charolette." Commanded the knight.
As the bird crawled off me, the Knight grabbed me by the neck of my robe and pulled me to my feet. She did a careless
job brushing the sand off my cloak, and laughed. Looking at the bird, I recognized it from somewhere before. It had a yellow
head, with an orange body. Its beak was blueish with some red markings. It was a Peco Peco! I remembered that knights could
ride on the backs of Peco Peco birds. I looked down at the huge bird prints on my robe.
"Gah!!! You should watch where you're going!!!" I shot at her.
"Whoo...some body's grumpy. Whats up with you?" She said, grinning.
"What...WHATS WRONG WITH ME?! YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!!!!" I screamed.
"Hmph!!!! You're a mean little mage you know that?! I'm sorry I hurt you but you're RUDE. I hope you get eaten by a hode!!"
She shouted, pushing me away and boarding her peco.
"Grrr Well same to y..wait... did you say 'hode'"? I asked.
"Yeah, what about it?!" She spat.
"Where are they..?"
"...?"
"I over heard a few mages saying its good to kill hodes. They're good for training. Where do I find them?" I asked again.
"Hah! Why should I help you after how rude you were to me?!" She glared.
"...Uh..."
"Hmph. I'm outta here. Go Charolette!" They began to trot away.
"Wait...I'm sorry..." I bit my tongue.
"No you're not."
"Yes I am."
"Then... kiss my boot." She held up her shoe.
"WHAT!?!"
"Ooooh well. Looks like you're trapped in this desert...haha." She started leaving.
"God...FINE..." I bent over to her foot.
"WHAT A WEIRDO!!! HAHAHAHHAHA!" She laughed.
"eh..?"
"Stupid. You don't have to do that. My names Sirocco, and yours?" She asked, smiling.
"Oh...I'm Dame." I said.
"Lemme see your spell book?
I nodded and took out my book. She flipped through the pages, and reaching into her pack, pulled out a Green and
Red orb. She tossed them to me, and told me to learn Stone Curse and Sight. She explained that Hodes would be too hard for me,
and that right now learning Fire attacks would be alittle on the difficult side. She told me that I should use Fire orbs for
when I am a wizard for the Meteor Storm spell. She also went over explaining various Wizard spells. She told me that I can use
My Wind runes for the spells Jupiter Thunder and Lord of Vermillion. Jupiter Thunder was where a wizard charged a ball of
lightning in his hand and blasted it at the enemy. Lord of Vermillion caused a huge pilar of light to crash down and cause
amazing amounts of damage to anything that got too close.
After explaining my Wind skills, she moved on to Water. She said a commonly used water skill was Ice Wall, which made
a barrier of Icicles that could cage in or stop an enemy in its tracks. Storm Gust brought forth a blizzard of hail and
heavy rain to smash the enemy. She suggested these spells, but then pointed me to Water Ball. This spell could only be used
in water, but caused large amounts of damage to enemies.
Earth spells were NOT commonly used, because there are so few, but she told me to get the Quagmire skill. This spell
turned the ground beneath the enemy into a sticky swamp, that they got stuck in to slow them down. She said it was very useful
for escaping from danger. Then she told me that a better place for me to train would be the dungeon of Bibilian, which was
east of Izlude. She told me that I would find plenty of Water runes there.
"Sounds like a good idea. ...But...Where is Izlude...?" I asked.
"Err...I guess I could take you." She said.
Sirocco grabbed me by the neck and hoisted me up onto the back of her peco. I yelled out, hating birds as I did. But
she silenced me. She started trotting at highspeed, and I nearly fell off several times. She instructed me to hold onto her,
so I did. Within a few minutes we had passed in and out of Morroc, and continued to head north.
"Ugh...can we stop?! I hate this damn bird...and I'm getting queasy..." I commented.
"Bah, dont be such a woo--seee." She giggled.
"Excuse me?!"
"WUSSSY!" She began to sing it.
"Wusseee wuuuusseeee wuuuuuseeeee wuuusssssy wussywussy, Dame issss a Wuuuussssssssy!" She sang.
"Stop that!!!"
"Psh! Make me, Grumpyhead!" She laughed.
We argued most of the way, as we continued to travel north. The deserts became plains, and the plains turned into
a lush field I remembered, it was near where I saw the rocker. To the east was a harbor town, Izlude. It was a small town
with only a few buildings. There was a huge food market near the middle, so I sold the merchants my small pieces of loot that
I found from monsters, and bought some fruit. As I looked around, Sirocco was no where to be found.
"Sirocco?" I called out.
"Siroccoooo!?"
I saw her come back, with a girl. The girl had short, straight white hair, wearing kitty ears on her head. She was
an Acolyte. She wore a pearl colored dress, down to her feet, and pink colored little shoes. She had a pearl colored muffler
around her neck, and a pinkish undervest. Around her waste was a heavy girdle, with a cross on it. She also had very large
thick gloves on her hands. She was pretty...but she had a sort of evil glint in her eyes.
"Heheh, Trippy-butt, meet Damebob Grumpypants!!" Said Sirocco, in a silly voice.
"Err..."
"Pfft, Nice eggshell." Said the acolyte.
"Uh...thanks..." I tried to smile.
"Hrumph...Names Triple Six...you can call me Triple..." She said in an unfriendly voice.
"I'm Dame..."
"Yeah yeah, now what Siro?" Asked Triple.
"Onward, to Bibilian!" Shouted the pink haired knight.
She grabbed both of us and tossed us on the Peco Peco, riding to the north east of Izlude. We found a boat there.
Sirocco handed some zeny to the sailor, and he ferried us to a small island. Near the middle of the jungle island was a
cave. Sirocco told me that I would be fine by myself in there, but as I dismounted the Peco, two odd things happened. First,
Triple also dismounted, and offered to help me, and second...
"DAAAAAAAAAAAME!" Squealed a familiar voice.
"Oh no..."
Up to me ran the Kapra girl, Suzie. Smiling and holding a letter. She saluted and gave her normal speech about
how the Kapra Corporation always serves the people. Sirocco laughed as I once again couldn't pay poor Suzie, but Sirocco
kindly paid all of my dues, and thensome. Suzie smiled brightly.
"Thank you!!! Finally maybe the boss will be a little nicer to me...I haven't given him any money since I took up being
Dame's Kapra!" She said.
"My Kapra..?" I asked.
"Yes yes, everyone has their own. Well...sometimes one Kapra girl has ten or even twenty people. But...um... I'm new. So I
only have to worry about you! He says if I do a worse job I won't even get to help a poring..." She sighed.
"Oh...Well I'm sorry. I'll try to pay you back for now on, ok?" I reassured.
"Ooooh!!! Thank you!!" She hugged me, then saluted and dashed away.
"Byeeee! Till we meet agaaaaain!" She squealed.
"Teehee someone has a wittle girl fwiend!" Teased Sirocco.
"Bah." I opened my letter and read it aloud.
"Dear, Dame.
How's it going? I'm a knight now! It's great. I also have a Crystal Blue rune, if you need it. Just tell that cute blonde
next time you see 'er and I'll send it to you. Have you found your way well? Drop me a line if you need anything.
-Cloud."
"Hey, he seems nice." Said Sirocco.
I nodded.
"Bah, lets go Egg head. I'm only doing this because I'm bored. And from now on, you are my pet. Don't forget it either!
Disappoint your master and she will introduce a morning star to your shell. Got it, dah-link?" Triple asked.
"Err... yes... Master?" I asked nervously.
"Oh! Good boy." Triple patted me on the side of my cheek. Then made a disgusted face.
"Hehe, See ya later guys." Sirocco waved, and trotted away.
Sighing, Triple grabbed me and dragged me into the cave. It was dark, and very damp. The whole cave was like a
big tunnel. A trench was dug through the middle, with a massive river rushing through it. As we waded through the River,
she complained about her dress getting wet. There were many small creatures swimming about. One looked like a brown insect,
called a Kukre. She instructed me to zap them, so I did. It dropped a Crystal Blue! I grabbed it, and powered my Frost Diver
skill. Within a few hours I had my Frost Diver nearly filled with ten orbs!
"Not bad, kid. You know...looking at your spell book... theres not many skills left for you to learn." She observed.
"Whaddya think I should do?" I asked.
"Bah. We'll ask Sirocco. Maybe you're ready to take the Wizard test." She suggested.
"It seems like it should be taking longer..." I frowned.
"Well... Yeah...it should... but its not like theres a set time limit...you just need to prove your worth. I am very lazy,
and don't fight much...I could probably be a priestess if I want to...I guess. Heh. Like I care. I'll probably be an acolyte
forever." She spat.
She shrugged. Holding her hand up, she lifted a warp portal, a pillar of light from the ground and pushed me in.
When the light cleared, we were in Geffen. She dragged me out to the field to the East, and we killed ChonChons until we
had a decent amount of Wind Runes, for when I became a wizard. After we finished, she checked us into a Inn, and then sent
Sirocco a letter using the Kapra. We rested in seperate rooms for the night. My room was pretty plain, with just white wall
paper. But the bed was nice, and so was the food. All in all, I made two new friends and accomplished quite a bit. I was
proud of how my day went.
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To be continued ...
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After walking for several days, I was completely lost. The desert was huge! I was lucky to find a Wind rune or
two from ChonChons, those small flying insects I mentioned before. So now I had a stronger Thunder Storm, although I didnt
like it much. The Sograt desert was huge, with the strangest creatures I had ever seen. The one that stood out the most was a
creature called a Muka. These monsters were huge Cactus plants with movable limbs that bounced around screaming loudly. They
were also quite dangerous. They tended to attack at will, and exploded into a puddle of water when defeated.
God Poing was still missing, although that didn't matter I guess. She had things to do, after all. We couldn't expect
her to be there for us all the time, could we?
As I was walking through the Sograt desert, I stopped and bent down at a small spring. Cupping my hands, I brought
the water to my lips and drank. It was kind of saliferous, but any water was good, because of how thirsty I was. I decided
to sit down and eat some food that was in my pack. Withdrawing an apple from my satchel, I took a big bite. It was juicy...
but I wasn't a fruit person, I just couldn't find anything else for my tiny bits of zeny. As I continued my very pathetic
meal, I heard some kind of singing coming from behind me...
"Doot Doot doot, doodoodoo doot, dooot! Doodoodoo doot doot dooodoooooo! Boys and girls of eeeverrry age, wouldn't you like
to see something strange?! Come with us and you will seeeeee this a town of Halloweeeen, THIS IS HALLOWEEN THIS IS HALLOWEEN.."
Sang the voice...
"Err...? Huh?"
I turned around and saw a huge beak coming right towards me. It was moving so fast that I barely had time to stand
to my feet. A mega sized foot crashed down on my face, bringing me to my back as I screamed in a muffled tone. A second foot
placed itself on my chest. I heard the rider command the bird to sit, and I flailed as it perched itself on me. I heard two
clunks as the rider hopped off the bird. I looked up and through the toes of the birds talon, I saw a female knight with
short pink hair, wearing a helmet on her head. She wore an iron skirt, long cape, metallic boots, and heavy gloves. She smiled
and bent over, only to poke me in the nose.
"Ahhh! See, Charolette? I told you you'd hatch a baby some day! But today you've hatched us a whole lil' mage!!!" Said the Girl.
"Ehhhh!!! Get this damn thing off me!" I shouted, kicking my legs about.
"Bah! You don't have to be so rude, EGG HEAD!!!" Yelled the knight.
"Grr! Its hurting me!!!" I bellowed.
"Sigh, fine fine. C'mon, off Charolette." Commanded the knight.
As the bird crawled off me, the Knight grabbed me by the neck of my robe and pulled me to my feet. She did a careless
job brushing the sand off my cloak, and laughed. Looking at the bird, I recognized it from somewhere before. It had a yellow
head, with an orange body. Its beak was blueish with some red markings. It was a Peco Peco! I remembered that knights could
ride on the backs of Peco Peco birds. I looked down at the huge bird prints on my robe.
"Gah!!! You should watch where you're going!!!" I shot at her.
"Whoo...some body's grumpy. Whats up with you?" She said, grinning.
"What...WHATS WRONG WITH ME?! YOU ALMOST KILLED ME!!!!" I screamed.
"Hmph!!!! You're a mean little mage you know that?! I'm sorry I hurt you but you're RUDE. I hope you get eaten by a hode!!"
She shouted, pushing me away and boarding her peco.
"Grrr Well same to y..wait... did you say 'hode'"? I asked.
"Yeah, what about it?!" She spat.
"Where are they..?"
"...?"
"I over heard a few mages saying its good to kill hodes. They're good for training. Where do I find them?" I asked again.
"Hah! Why should I help you after how rude you were to me?!" She glared.
"...Uh..."
"Hmph. I'm outta here. Go Charolette!" They began to trot away.
"Wait...I'm sorry..." I bit my tongue.
"No you're not."
"Yes I am."
"Then... kiss my boot." She held up her shoe.
"WHAT!?!"
"Ooooh well. Looks like you're trapped in this desert...haha." She started leaving.
"God...FINE..." I bent over to her foot.
"WHAT A WEIRDO!!! HAHAHAHHAHA!" She laughed.
"eh..?"
"Stupid. You don't have to do that. My names Sirocco, and yours?" She asked, smiling.
"Oh...I'm Dame." I said.
"Lemme see your spell book?
I nodded and took out my book. She flipped through the pages, and reaching into her pack, pulled out a Green and
Red orb. She tossed them to me, and told me to learn Stone Curse and Sight. She explained that Hodes would be too hard for me,
and that right now learning Fire attacks would be alittle on the difficult side. She told me that I should use Fire orbs for
when I am a wizard for the Meteor Storm spell. She also went over explaining various Wizard spells. She told me that I can use
My Wind runes for the spells Jupiter Thunder and Lord of Vermillion. Jupiter Thunder was where a wizard charged a ball of
lightning in his hand and blasted it at the enemy. Lord of Vermillion caused a huge pilar of light to crash down and cause
amazing amounts of damage to anything that got too close.
After explaining my Wind skills, she moved on to Water. She said a commonly used water skill was Ice Wall, which made
a barrier of Icicles that could cage in or stop an enemy in its tracks. Storm Gust brought forth a blizzard of hail and
heavy rain to smash the enemy. She suggested these spells, but then pointed me to Water Ball. This spell could only be used
in water, but caused large amounts of damage to enemies.
Earth spells were NOT commonly used, because there are so few, but she told me to get the Quagmire skill. This spell
turned the ground beneath the enemy into a sticky swamp, that they got stuck in to slow them down. She said it was very useful
for escaping from danger. Then she told me that a better place for me to train would be the dungeon of Bibilian, which was
east of Izlude. She told me that I would find plenty of Water runes there.
"Sounds like a good idea. ...But...Where is Izlude...?" I asked.
"Err...I guess I could take you." She said.
Sirocco grabbed me by the neck and hoisted me up onto the back of her peco. I yelled out, hating birds as I did. But
she silenced me. She started trotting at highspeed, and I nearly fell off several times. She instructed me to hold onto her,
so I did. Within a few minutes we had passed in and out of Morroc, and continued to head north.
"Ugh...can we stop?! I hate this damn bird...and I'm getting queasy..." I commented.
"Bah, dont be such a woo--seee." She giggled.
"Excuse me?!"
"WUSSSY!" She began to sing it.
"Wusseee wuuuusseeee wuuuuuseeeee wuuusssssy wussywussy, Dame issss a Wuuuussssssssy!" She sang.
"Stop that!!!"
"Psh! Make me, Grumpyhead!" She laughed.
We argued most of the way, as we continued to travel north. The deserts became plains, and the plains turned into
a lush field I remembered, it was near where I saw the rocker. To the east was a harbor town, Izlude. It was a small town
with only a few buildings. There was a huge food market near the middle, so I sold the merchants my small pieces of loot that
I found from monsters, and bought some fruit. As I looked around, Sirocco was no where to be found.
"Sirocco?" I called out.
"Siroccoooo!?"
I saw her come back, with a girl. The girl had short, straight white hair, wearing kitty ears on her head. She was
an Acolyte. She wore a pearl colored dress, down to her feet, and pink colored little shoes. She had a pearl colored muffler
around her neck, and a pinkish undervest. Around her waste was a heavy girdle, with a cross on it. She also had very large
thick gloves on her hands. She was pretty...but she had a sort of evil glint in her eyes.
"Heheh, Trippy-butt, meet Damebob Grumpypants!!" Said Sirocco, in a silly voice.
"Err..."
"Pfft, Nice eggshell." Said the acolyte.
"Uh...thanks..." I tried to smile.
"Hrumph...Names Triple Six...you can call me Triple..." She said in an unfriendly voice.
"I'm Dame..."
"Yeah yeah, now what Siro?" Asked Triple.
"Onward, to Bibilian!" Shouted the pink haired knight.
She grabbed both of us and tossed us on the Peco Peco, riding to the north east of Izlude. We found a boat there.
Sirocco handed some zeny to the sailor, and he ferried us to a small island. Near the middle of the jungle island was a
cave. Sirocco told me that I would be fine by myself in there, but as I dismounted the Peco, two odd things happened. First,
Triple also dismounted, and offered to help me, and second...
"DAAAAAAAAAAAME!" Squealed a familiar voice.
"Oh no..."
Up to me ran the Kapra girl, Suzie. Smiling and holding a letter. She saluted and gave her normal speech about
how the Kapra Corporation always serves the people. Sirocco laughed as I once again couldn't pay poor Suzie, but Sirocco
kindly paid all of my dues, and thensome. Suzie smiled brightly.
"Thank you!!! Finally maybe the boss will be a little nicer to me...I haven't given him any money since I took up being
Dame's Kapra!" She said.
"My Kapra..?" I asked.
"Yes yes, everyone has their own. Well...sometimes one Kapra girl has ten or even twenty people. But...um... I'm new. So I
only have to worry about you! He says if I do a worse job I won't even get to help a poring..." She sighed.
"Oh...Well I'm sorry. I'll try to pay you back for now on, ok?" I reassured.
"Ooooh!!! Thank you!!" She hugged me, then saluted and dashed away.
"Byeeee! Till we meet agaaaaain!" She squealed.
"Teehee someone has a wittle girl fwiend!" Teased Sirocco.
"Bah." I opened my letter and read it aloud.
"Dear, Dame.
How's it going? I'm a knight now! It's great. I also have a Crystal Blue rune, if you need it. Just tell that cute blonde
next time you see 'er and I'll send it to you. Have you found your way well? Drop me a line if you need anything.
-Cloud."
"Hey, he seems nice." Said Sirocco.
I nodded.
"Bah, lets go Egg head. I'm only doing this because I'm bored. And from now on, you are my pet. Don't forget it either!
Disappoint your master and she will introduce a morning star to your shell. Got it, dah-link?" Triple asked.
"Err... yes... Master?" I asked nervously.
"Oh! Good boy." Triple patted me on the side of my cheek. Then made a disgusted face.
"Hehe, See ya later guys." Sirocco waved, and trotted away.
Sighing, Triple grabbed me and dragged me into the cave. It was dark, and very damp. The whole cave was like a
big tunnel. A trench was dug through the middle, with a massive river rushing through it. As we waded through the River,
she complained about her dress getting wet. There were many small creatures swimming about. One looked like a brown insect,
called a Kukre. She instructed me to zap them, so I did. It dropped a Crystal Blue! I grabbed it, and powered my Frost Diver
skill. Within a few hours I had my Frost Diver nearly filled with ten orbs!
"Not bad, kid. You know...looking at your spell book... theres not many skills left for you to learn." She observed.
"Whaddya think I should do?" I asked.
"Bah. We'll ask Sirocco. Maybe you're ready to take the Wizard test." She suggested.
"It seems like it should be taking longer..." I frowned.
"Well... Yeah...it should... but its not like theres a set time limit...you just need to prove your worth. I am very lazy,
and don't fight much...I could probably be a priestess if I want to...I guess. Heh. Like I care. I'll probably be an acolyte
forever." She spat.
She shrugged. Holding her hand up, she lifted a warp portal, a pillar of light from the ground and pushed me in.
When the light cleared, we were in Geffen. She dragged me out to the field to the East, and we killed ChonChons until we
had a decent amount of Wind Runes, for when I became a wizard. After we finished, she checked us into a Inn, and then sent
Sirocco a letter using the Kapra. We rested in seperate rooms for the night. My room was pretty plain, with just white wall
paper. But the bed was nice, and so was the food. All in all, I made two new friends and accomplished quite a bit. I was
proud of how my day went.
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To be continued ...